PABLO GARCÍA

Fúcares Gallery is pleased to present for the first time in its space in Almagro the young artist Pablo García (León 1975) in a solo exhibition. He is an enterprising artist who constantly submerges into the world of images with the attitude of an investigator. Through his work, the artist inquires into all the nooks and crannies of time in the small samples that it leaves behind on all the visual elements surrounding us.

In his latest work, that he is now showing, made up of 23 works on canvas and each measuring 90 x 90 cm, the artist has used the photographical format and the digital manipulation of this medium to recreate images of a distinct and exquisite baroque style, alluding to a world considered as marginal — with a certain degree of squalor, but with an extreme beauty —, and letting us get involved, even if it’s just in the frozen moment of their expression, with all those dark secrets contained in his characters, and that somehow, they are not so far from our own feelings and doubts.

He defines his work with these words:
“Beginning with the observation of old photographs, it can be perceived that they are not static images, but they behave as any living creature. They are gradually affected by time as it passes, chemical pollution, a poor fixation and external agents that have destroyed the lustre that they must have had in their day. That pollution, that random dirt, fills them with plasticity and beauty, despite being so far from the original aesthetical purposes for which they were created.

The intent has been to create polluted images, disquieting portraits taken perhaps from the world of dreams, from the last light of dream. Digital collages. For this purpose images are selected which, once decontextualised, are redeveloped and transformed, creating new readings and compositions.”